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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=ine-pro *leh₂-tro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫaːˈtraː.tʊs], [ɫaːˈtraː.tuːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [laˈtraː.tus], [laˈtraː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lātrātus''' ''m'' (genitive lātrātūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lātrō|-tus|t1=to bark]], a verbal noun of the fourth declension.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan derives that verb from ⟨*lātro-⟩ “barking”, going back to [[itc-pro|*lātro-|t=barking]] and [[ine-pro|*leh₂-tro-|t=barking]], from the root also in [[lamenta|alt=lāmenta]] “wailing”.^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[sa|रायति|tr=rā́yati|t=barks]] and [[lt|lóti|t=to bark, scold]].^(de Vaan 2008) Varro explained the word from [[lateo|alt=lateō]], because dogs show at night what lies hidden.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Accius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of the roaring of the waves on a curved shore.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the barking or baying of dogs: Virgil tells the huntsman to rouse boars with barking, Ovid has barks uttered, and Juvenal sleep broken by barking.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Transferred, it is shouting or bawling, as the unusual bawling in the forum in Valerius Maximus, and the roaring of the sea.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is not found before Augustus except in that line of Accius, which the OLD gives.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of the roaring sea.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of barking dogs.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of hounds rousing boars.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|barking]], baying (of dogs).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Shouting, [[m|en|bawling]]; the roaring of the sea.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[latro#1|alt=lātrō]]

+ * [[lamenta|alt=lāmenta]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}